St. Landry democrat., 1887-10-22
AN END TO ANARCHIST.
The Condemnation of the Chicago Bomb
throwers Has Cleared the Air.

tnfOWerS HAS cleared the AIR.
Since the condemnation of the Chicago
Anarchists there has been renewed
activity among their sympathizers. They
have made but an indifferent showing
lately, and have evidently secured no
new converts to their cause. The Hay
market affair convinced the country that
they were dangerous. Previously they
had been deemed mere theorists and no
one had any idea that they would at
tempt to openly defy and fight the law.
The massacre in the Havmarket awoke
the country to this danger, and fortu
natelv awoke it in time. The course then
taken has had very satisfactory result.
There was something of panic at first
in Chicago and other cities where the
Anarchists and Socialists were most
numerous, but this soon subsidized. 1t was
recognized that the law was strong
enough to protect, and that these agita-
tors were less numerous than they pre-
tended.
Since the situation has grown con-
stantlv clearer and clearer. The country
has been put on its guard; most of those
who were inclined to sympathiZe with
the Socialists have been aroused to the
fact that they are sometimes dangerous
agitators and the Anarchists have been
so etfectually cowed that they have con-
fined themselves to speeches and buster.
They seem to realize the fact to-day
that their course has had the effect of
weakening them; that the public is be-
ginning to recognize that they are be-
coming mere blusterers, who talk big
but who are afraid to practice these theo-
ries, and that the Haymarket affair has
frightened them from the field. 1t would
not be surprising, therefore, to see them
make an attempt TO utilize the execution
of the seven Anarchists in Chicago by a
demonstration of some kind that will
bring them again prominently before the
country and secure them that notorietv
for which they seek, and without which
their party can have no existence.
They have mustered all their strength
to protest against the execution, and
they have threatened, in case these pro-
hanging of their comrades We do not
regard it as likely that they will make
any very vigorous demonstration against
the hanging or attempt to override the
law; still that is possible, and certainly
ali attempt DCIiIS iiduC dl tllCSt
various meetings to fire the Anarchist
heart. This should be prevented at all
hazards If the law is effectually carried
out in Chicago without any disturbance,
it will demonstrate the weakness OF the
Anarchists. They are growing less
every day, and will sink into nothing
exercise of the powers of the law,
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demned men in Chicago that the law can
be enforced to punish murder carried on
in the name of Socialism, anu that the
Socialists and Anarchists, with rare ex-
ceptions, are mere theorists, who fulmi-
nate violent denunciations of the govern
ment and talk of arming themselves to
put it down, but who do nothing of the
kind when the occasion arises. A little
firmness and preparation now will put
an etfectual end to the ogre of Anarchism,
over which the whole country was latel Y
alarmed. The Anarchists seem to ap
preciate this, and hence in all their meet
ings they talk of the necessity of doing
something, in the hope of thus firing up
some of their members to create dis
turbance-Neao Orleans Times Democrat.
A Choice of Terms.
Dr. Nj is very enthusiastic surgeon
and delights in cutting up the defunct in the
cause of his profession He was lately called
upon to attend a case at st. Mary's Hospital:
A poor fellow had his face filled with bird
shot and one arm nearly taken off The doc
tor had come directly from the dissecting-
room and his head was full of his work
there Walking into the ward with both
hands in his pockets, as is his way, he ap-
preached the bed.
rs this the ubject ?" he asked briefly.
mo, DOCTOR" the poor fellow answered,
"I'm not a subject yet, I'm only an object
and he smiled comcally.
The doctor nodded grlmly Che likes joke,
even at his own expense) but he gave an ex
ira touch to his professional care for the
witty patient.
Somewhat Personal.
A humpback met malicious one-eyed
neighbor.
All" said the latter, you have your load |
aarly thiS nnrripr "